Critical Analysis of a Sequence from FANTASIA
All of the animation that was used in Fantasia was hand drawn. The
scene that we are analysing is the first one right at the very
beginning. This was when the elephants and hippos are floating on
bubbles and then one of the hippos' lands on the floor on a bed, then
the crocodiles come along.
The way that each and every one of the slides was so smooth was
because they used a technique which was very similar to ghosting that
we now use on the computers except they traced each slide onto a piece
of tracing paper as well as normal paper, they would then place each
one on top of the other so that they would be able to see where all of
the animations that they had already drawn were. The music that was
used in the film was created before the animations were drawn. The
piece is called "Dance of the Hours" and it is a ballet piece of
music. In this animation there is no speaking involved it is all done
based around the music and the expressions that the characters show.
The target audience for this piece of drawn animation would most
likely be for younger children as there are no words that are used
therefore the child would be able to understand it easily and also it
has soft and gentle music, with the animations of animals that they
are able to recognise.
At the beginning the sky is full of warm colours red, orange and
yellow. These colours are soft and gentle showing that the mood is
calm and happy. It could also show that it is night as the sun is
setting. The colours are all mixed together to create an effect that
its very peaceful. The colour that the crocodiles are wearing is red.
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...his is when the bubble bursts when the hippo lands on the
floor. This is a good use of SFX.
In conclusion I think that all of the techniques that I mentioned are
important. If I was to create my own short animation I think that I
would consider the types of camera shots as the most important as they
create the tension and how the certain character that the shot is of
gets across to you. The type of shots that you would use depends on
how you would like the character to be viewed. I did not realise that
there was so much in this short sequence that I could analyse. The
amount of different shots that are used is very high. The way that
there is a contrast in the music for the crocodiles and hippo is also
very effective and if this was not used I don't think that the
animation would have had the effect that it does now.
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